As average summer temperatures rise in the tropics, so do the risks of mass death from killer heatwaves, climate scientists find.
Not exact matches
As summer heats up in the Arizona desert
temperatures easily exceed 100ºF with an
average summer temperature of 112ºF and warmer.
If they continue to die off,
as they did in 1999 and 2003 when
temperatures were 3 to 4 °C warmer than
average and
summer layers lasted longer than usual, fish and other sea life that depend on them will decline too, the team say.
The
average summer temperature in Boston stands to increase by
as much
as 14 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, bringing with it a sharp rise in the number of deadly hot spells.
Their calculations suggest this could cause
average summer temperatures in temperate zones to fall by
as much
as 1 °C.
In end - of - century projections,
summers have the largest increases in
average temperature: 6.5 °F (3.6 °C) for the stabilization emission scenario, 11.8 °F (6.6 °C) for the business -
as - usual emission scenario.
While
summer average temperature across Montana is 64 °F (17.8 °C),
temperatures generally peak in July and August, with mean daily highs above 90 °F (32 °C) in the east,
as well
as in western valleys.
Elevated
temperatures across more of the country earlier in the season helped the overall
summer to tie 2006
as the fifth warmest on record for the Lower 48, measuring 2.1 °F (1.2 °C) above the 20th century
average of 71.4 °F.
The researchers also looked at the changing likelihood of «extremely warm
summers,» defined
as the real - world
summer in each region with the highest
average wet bulb globe
temperature between 1973 and 2012.
The Gulf of Thailand changes from an atmospheric CO2 sink during the boreal winter to a CO2 source in
summer due to higher water
temperatures, while other sub-regions
as well
as the entire
averaged Sunda Shelf act
as a continuous source of CO2 for the atmosphere.
As Inle Lake is located in a relatively higher altitude, even during the peak of
summer, the
average temperature is around 30 °C while during the cooler months (December to February),
temperatures can drop to 10 °C at night.
The climate in Greenland is sub-Arctic:
summer is surprisingly comfortable,
averaging 17 °C, but
temperatures plunge
as low
as -40 °C in January.
Vancouver Island North has a temperate coastal climate with a lush spring season that comes
as early
as the end of February and mild, dry
summers with
average temperatures in the 17 °C (63 °F) range.
Climate: Belize has a sub tropical climate with an
average temperature of 80 degrees F. Winters can get
as low
as the 60's and
summer months can be in the 90 «s.
Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later,
summer hotter,
as Gary Peters said «The global
average surface
temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»
As an example, the city of Seattle is planning for average annual temperatures to increase within a range of 1.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 to 3 degrees Celsius) by the 2040s, with summer temperatures increasing by as much as 7.9 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 degrees Celsius), according to the Seattle Climate Action Pla
As an example, the city of Seattle is planning for
average annual
temperatures to increase within a range of 1.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 to 3 degrees Celsius) by the 2040s, with
summer temperatures increasing by
as much as 7.9 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 degrees Celsius), according to the Seattle Climate Action Pla
as much
as 7.9 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 degrees Celsius), according to the Seattle Climate Action Pla
as 7.9 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 degrees Celsius), according to the Seattle Climate Action Plan.
AS Australians sweltered through a record - breaking
summer heatwave this week, one of the world's leading scientific bodies revised down its five - year projection for the world's
average temperature.
As temperatures maintained near late
summer or early fall
averages, the departure from normal has continued to intensify throughout November (see here).
The
summer temperatures in 1816
averaged just a few degrees below normal, but
as mentioned, it frosted throughout the
summer.
Figure 2: DMI
summer melt season
temperatures and annual DMI
temperature anomaly
as well
as five year running
averages
Furthermore, the Arctic has warmed more than twice
as fast
as the global
average, a phenomenon known
as Arctic amplification, and stimulated by the combined increasing Arctic
temperatures and rapid loss of sea ice in all seasons along with declining snow cover in the spring and early
summer.
In the
summer following Indonesia's 1815 Tambora eruption, frost wrecked crops
as far off
as New England, and the 1991 blowout of the Philippines» Mount Pinatubo lowered
average global
temperatures by 0.7 degrees F — enough to mask the effects of manmade greenhouse gases for a year or so.
In fact, when you compare these
summer temperatures carefully, you will find that the high arctic daily
averages have been decreasing the more CO2 is added to the atmosphere
as years go by.
2014 - 2015... The Ithaca Voice (Author): • This could be warmest day in Ithaca since October 29 • A look ahead at Ithaca weather; temps this month are 7 degrees below
average • Sub-freezing temps to bring light snow / sleet to Ithaca • Light snow in Ithaca area expected
as temperatures drop to 20s • Cool, wet week ahead for Ithaca • Ithaca can expect mild
temperatures well above normal this week • Update: Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Ithaca • Above -
average temperatures expected for Ithaca for early October • Why has the weather this
summer been so amazing?
Because the 2012
summer temperature was warmer than previous years (
as I tweeted 5 August: June 2012, warmest on record for Greenland's capital Nuuk since at least 1866 when continuous record keeping began, +7.2 C vs +4.3 C
average), warmer than 1929 by at least 0.5 deg.
As an earlier World Bank - commissioned study noted, food stocks plummet,
average summer temperatures reach extreme heatwave levels across vast swaths of the world, and sea - level rise threatens to displace hundreds of millions of people.
Kattel notes: «The
average temperature in winter (11.55 deg C) and
summer (23.780 deg C) was found maximum at the Airport
as compared to other stations.»
For example, the increase in
average temperature from 1975 to 1998 was due to either no change in
summer temps in temperate zones, or a drop in
temperatures in the
summer temporate zones, coupled with winters not getting
as cold.
Arctic
temperatures at the beginning of the first millennium were between 2 ° and 6 °C warmer than they are now,
as paleoclimate evidence suggests
summer Arctic sea surface
temperatures ranged between 3 °C and 7.5 °C about 2,000 years ago, whereas they
average about 1.1 °C today.
As one should be able to tell by the fact the text refers to taking mean
summer data and area
averaging it over the study domain, this is a reference to the authors creation of the domain (area / regional)
temperature field.
An Australian example is the comparison between a Stevenson screen and a Glaisher stand carried out between 1887 and 1947 at Adelaide (Nicholls et al., 1996), which found that maximum
temperatures in the Glaisher stand were about 0.6 °C warmer than those in the Stevenson screen
as an annual
average, with differences of about 1 °C in
summer.
This was no problem for the yearly
averages,
as these are near identical for the overlapping period, but
summer temperatures of Egedesminde show a constant bias of 3 C below Illulisat
temperatures.
Many continental interiors warm approximately twice
as fast
as the global
average, with this being particularly accentuated in boreal
summer, and the winter - time Arctic Ocean
temperatures rise more than three times faster than the global
average.
Noting that its ice sheet had reached a historical low of 3m sq. km last
summer - it covered around 7.5 m sq. km
as recently
as 2000 - Orheim told Xinhua that «if Norway's
average temperature this year equals that in 2007, the ice cap in the Arctic will all melt away.»